Text scam are common these days, once they got your number you will forever be in their contact list and will more likely receive more text scams.
One twitter user however have a clever way to scam the scammer or in her own words “give scammers a mini heart attack”.
Here’s who she did it; as soon as she receives a text scam that purportedly say that you won half million pesos and a laptop, she immediately replied, pretending to be one of those subscription service that sends a Bible verse each day for 50 Pesos, since these scammers are working on a budget a any amount that is deducted from their budget is big blow to their operation.
Of course the she happily shared the whole encounter on twitter, which went viral. Since tweeting, it now have more than 137K likes, 59K retweets and she got more than 366 replies.
How to give scammers a mini heart attack 🙄 pic.twitter.com/9h0c2A9Yjy
— Shaina Gimao (@sha_bcgimao) December 15, 2017